Demonstration by the Ethiopian community against police violence, 2022. Photo: Tali Meyer, Shatil-stock On December 10, 2025, ACRI appealed to the Police Commissioner and the Legal Advisor to the Police following testimonies we received and reports in the media about attempts by the Lachish Police  to deter members of the Ethiopian-Israeli community from holding or participating in a lawful demonstration. According to the statements ACRI and the media received, the community

Photo: © Tero Vesalainen | Dreamstime.com At the end of a major hearing at the Supreme Court this past July, the court's security guards feared violence from right-wing activists who had come to court. To avoid this, they helped representatives from ACRI quickly escape from the courtroom the moment the proceedings ended and tried to hide us in one of the corners of the building. And so there we found ourselves, after a principled and important legal hearing about the starva

Photo: Henry Wilkins/VOA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons ACRI petitioned Israel's Supreme Court on November 18, 2025, on behalf of an asylum seeker from Sudan, after the police revoked the permit for a demonstration at the United Arab Emirates embassy in Herzliya against the genocide in Sudan. The police initially approved the demonstration under certain conditions, but later reversed its decision, claiming it had received information that there was a high degree of cer

Photo: Wix Media In September 2020, the police scrapped the protocol that prohibited photographing protesters other than under exceptional circumstances. The police claimed there would be a new protocol, but despite repeated requests from the Association for Civil Rights, no new protocol has been put into place. Meanwhile, police officers have been photographing protesters whenever they like, without any justification. Officers have used their personal phones to photograph in

Every year, the Association for Civil Rights awards the Emil Grunzweig Human Rights Award  to a person or organization that has made a significant contribution to the advancement of human rights in Israel. These are the recipients of the 2025 award:   Jack Khoury. Photo: Rami Shllush, Haaretz Jack Khoury , journalist for Haaretz and news director of Radio A-Shams. For two decades, Khoury has consistently and persistently called for human rights and equality, and for mediation

IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir. Photo: Yossi Zamir, Shatil-stok On September 7, 2025, the media reported that following anti-war...

Photo: Yossi Zamir, Shatil-stok On August 18, 2025 ACRI petitioned the Supreme Court demanding that the police be prohibited from using...

Antiwar protest, Tel Aviv, July 12, 2025. Photo: Tal A.M "Protest Documentation," Whatsapp On July 21, 2025, ACRI contacted the police and the Fire and Rescue Authority on behalf of activists from the political coalition Hadash who sought to organize a demonstration in the city of Sakhnin in northern Israel against the continuation of the war in Gaza. The organizers coordinated the demonstration with the local authorities, even though the law does not require them to do so. R

Antiwar protest (illustrative). Photo: Orna Naor, Shatil-stok On June 29, 2025, ACRI approached the Haifa Municipality and police...

Photo: Yossi Zamir, Shatil-stok (the individuals pictured are not connected to the events described in this post) On June 25, 2025, we...

Police officers remove a protester at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, June 15, 2025. Photo: Arik Segal, "Protest Documentation," WhatsApp...

On October 31, 2024, the police updated the "Deployment and Use of Stun Grenades" policy. The new version  (Heb)  allows officers to...

Photos of people and children killed in Gaza during a demonstration. Photo: "Standing Together" On May 29, 2025 ACRI sent an urgent...

Demonstration in Tel Aviv against the war, May 24, 2025. Photo: Zohar Bar Yehuda, "Protest Documentation," WhatsApp The coalition...

Border Police vehicle at a demonstration. Photo: "Protest Documentation", WhatsApp In response to the government’s most recent efforts to...

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, together with the Public Committee Against Torture and the Movement for Quality Government,...

In September 2023, the police modified and expanded their procedures regarding the use of mounted police at demonstrations. The revised...

A Review of Human Rights Violations in Israel and the West Bank    Over a Year of War     Since the horrific massacre carried out by...

In October 2023, the police updated their procedures for operating the MCTZ (spray machine) to allow the addition of pepper spray to the...

On May 22, 2024, we sent legal correspondence (Hebrew) to the Attorney General and the Attorney General of the Police requesting that...